Ezea p



UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZRA P. WRIGHT, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOJUSTUS V. ELSTER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENQ' IN DEVICES FOR PACKING TABLES AND- OTHER ARTICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,792, dated June 12,1877 application filed 'April 16, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA P. WRIGHT, of the city of Springfield, countyof Clarke, and State of Ohio, have invented an Improved Device forPacking Tables and other Articles, for the purpose of protecting them inhandling and during their transportation.

This improvement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawlngs.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a pair of knockdown tables packed forshipment Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, with a section of the bandbroken out to show the table-tops.

The design of my invention is a complete device for packing tables, thatwill not. only protect them from injury by handling or duringtransportation, but which shall be so constructed and attached upon thevarious parts of the tables most likely to be injured as not to mar ordeface the same, and also to add the least possible blilk and weightthereto.

In the figures, two extension-tables are shown packed together, mydevice being in I do not,

tended for packing tables in pairs. however, confine my invention tothis kind of table exclusively. as it can be used upon different kindsof tables, stands, and other articles.

A is a wooden band, which is bent around the edges of the table-tops.This is shown as being in two pieces. It may be constructed in onepiece, or of two or more. This band is slightly wider than the thicknessof two table-tops B, so as to allow of a sheet of paper or other thinmaterial being laid between them, as seen in Fig. l. p is the paper,seen where the section is broken out as interposed between the twotable-tops. Where the ends of the band unite, the pieces a a are screwedor nailed to its edges, securing the ends firmly together. These piecesextend over upon the under sides of the two table-tops, so as to clampthe band upon them. Two intermediate pieces, a. a, are also used forholding the band in place at points between the former.

All the pieces are nailed or screwed to the band A, only extending overthe under side of the table-tops B far enough to hold them together andto keep the band in its place. This constitutes the principal partof myinvention.

1 do not confine myself strictly to tables, as this mode of packing isapplicable to other articles, as piano-tops, stools, &c.

In sectional or knock-down tables I attach caps b b to the ends offrame-posts O O by screws or nails, these parts also being exposed toabrasion. This cap consists simply of a piece of board of the form ofthe cross-section of the post. It is attached by two screws or nails,one each side of the center.

The slides are also protected by the pieces 0 c, which extend across theslide-rails D D near their ends. They also form, in connection with saidslide-rails D D, a crate for bold ing the detached legs (1 d d d of thetables, the whole forming together a complete, compact, light, andstrong packing device, with but a slight increase in bulk to theoriginal article.

In packing tables the band-sections A are first bent in a form, and theblocks or pieces a a fastened to the edge of their united ends, and thepieces a. a between them on one side. One of the tables B is then setdown into the band until its under surface rests on the blocks a a anda. a. A sheet of paper or other thin material, 19, is laid on theinclosed top, and the other table-top inverted and let down into theband to its place, after which the fellow-blocks a a a a are thenfastened, as before, opposite to the first ones.

In knock-down tables such as are shown the legs can be crated and theposts capped,

E. P. WRIGHT.

Attest:

G. S. Foos, P. S. FINOH.

